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- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
customize products and respond to customers. Regional managers take responsibility for sales, product development, distribution, and manufacturing. As a consequence, the spans of control for managers back at the head office are relatively narrow, covering only... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
600 urban centers accounting for roughly 60 percent of global GDP. The creation of this economic and social value, however, involves the consumption of considerable natural resources. For example, cities today contain 50 percent of the... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
poultry products is deciding the company's future strategy in the face of new opportunities in Central and Eastern Europe, a changing retail market in Hungary, and the possibility of increased global competition. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
forecasts to align investors' expectations with their own, we predict that managers increased the quality of their earnings forecasts during the 1990s in order to keep pace with the improved forward-looking information provided by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
as Northern firms shift production to Southern affiliates. This FDI accelerates Southern industrial development. The South's share of global manufacturing and the pace at which production of recently invented goods shifts to the South... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
Runway, Sentient Jet), and there is a more explicit focus on sustainability (e.g., Stella McCartney). Luxury brands need to consider the increasing global connectedness, particularly the importance of the Chinese market for luxury... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
paper quantifies anecdotal evidence that Chinese firms are more diversified than similar firms in other countries. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-007.pdf Innovation through Global Collaboration: A New Source of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
http://hbr.org/2012/03/how-to-make-finance-work/ar/1 Managing Political Risk in Global Business: Beiersdorf 1914-1990 Authors:Geoffrey Jones and Christina Lubinski Publication:Enterprise and Society 13, no. 1 (March 2012) Abstract This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
turned their attention from local to more distant sources of news and entertainment. While the integration of media markets will raise the private welfare of many consumers, critics of a globalized information and entertainment industry... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
social network that would allow everyone to share their lives with one another across geographies. "Compared to the value of the global network idea, the value of the actual product of a platform for college kids was much less,"... View Details
- 15 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty
activities. These days, we need to plan more carefully because small decisions can have dire consequences for ourselves and for others. Consider the newly stressful task of grocery shopping. Should I order groceries online for home... View Details
- 06 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health
employee, make the issue part of global debate; the Germanwings crash provides both an opportunity and a warning on the issue. "A very interesting question to ask is whether the German pilot tragedy will be good or bad for treatment and... View Details
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
Badaracco says. Furthermore, the "new invisible hand" of the markets is even more intense than the old one due to rapid global dissemination of information. Badaracco's vision suggests it's more difficult to be a responsible leader today... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Dec 2006
- Op-Ed
India Needs to Encourage Trade with China
extensively with each other. That they don't, at least not yet, is an anomaly. The U.s.-mexico Example Consider the U.S.-Mexico bilateral trade as an example, an order of magnitude bigger than China-India bilateral trade. Indeed, Mexico... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
Journal (forthcoming) Abstract Intercultural tensions and conflicts are inevitable in the global workplace. This paper introduces the concept of ambient cultural disharmony-indirect experience of intercultural tensions and conflicts in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
evidence to challenge a common misperception about internalization theory. The theory has often been criticized for maintaining that it assumes a hierarchically organized MNE based on knowledge flowing from the home country. This is not an accurate description of how... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It
trying to go around all of the rules is not a particularly good idea.” The resignation last week of Uber co-founder and CEO Travis Kalanick is the latest black eye for the company, which has stepped on many toes during its rise from scrappy startup to View Details
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
afford to write off these firms as noncompetitive threats or unworthy partners on the global business stage. "There is still a lot of apprehension about state-owned enterprises," says Musacchio. "The debate is very polarized. Either you... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
observations. Although healthcare as a whole still suffers from the elephant problem, it's suffering less all the time—at least where science is concerned—thanks to remarkable and ever-faster scientific advances. Chief among the advances is genomic research that offers... View Details
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
conversation about. A professional school consists of some agreed-upon body of knowledge that it believes the practitioners of the profession need to know in order to be effective. Current trends suggest that an institutional... View Details